Iran

A new wave of users have launched drone strikes either on their own territory or across borders over the past 15 months. While the majority of attention on armed drones has focused on US use (and to some extent on the… Read More ›

There has been intense media coverage of the downing of a US drone in Iran over the past week. Iran has previously claimed that it has shot down ‘Western drones’ (as we reported here) but they have never provided proof despite saying they… Read More ›

2011 started where 2010 left off with continued drone attacks in Pakistan. On 27/28th December 42 people were killed in drone strikes while 19 people were killed in three separate drone attacks in North Waziristan on New Year’s Day and between… Read More ›

Iran has unveiled a new long-range drone named Karrar which has a range of 1,000km and could carry two 250-pound bombs or a precision bomb of 500 pounds. According to the BBC, President Ahmadinejad said that the new drone was a… Read More ›

There has been a lot of drone-related activity in the middle east at the moment – mainly involving Iran and Israel. Two weeks after it happened, it was reported on Aug. 16th that the ‘father’ of Iran’s UAV programme, Reza Baruni,… Read More ›